BIM & Sustainability

Omar selim
Omar.selm@gmail.com
 Hello!
I amOmar Selim
Founder of BIMarabia
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You can find me at @BIMarabia

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BIM
Sir Christopher Wren’s Great Model. 1672
 What is BIM?
Modeling
Building Information Management
Better Information For Management.

“a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of

a facility. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for
information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions
during its lifecycle from inception onward.”

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 BIM Model

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Sustainability
 Sustainable
• - Development “meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising
the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” – Brundtland Report

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 Sustainable Construction and Buildings

• Buildings use 46% of all energy – up to 70% in major cities

• Construction uses 53% of primary materials
• Construction has second biggest environmental footprint after food
• 13 million tonnes of materials delivered and not used
• 90 million tonnes of waste – 3 times domestic output
• 21% of all hazardous waste in UK is construction waste92% of clients said that designers’ drawings are typically
not sufficient for construction
37% of materials used in construction become waste
10% of the cost of a project is typically due to change orders
38% of carbon emissions are from buildings not cars
Why accept this ?........
CMAA Owners survey 2005, CMAA Industry Report 2007, Economist Magazine 2002
Buildings contribute 40% of global carbon emissions.

The UK government’s Construction 2025 strategy targets a 33% reduction in the whole-life cost of built assets
and a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

This is a stepping stone on the way to the target of cutting emissions by 80% by 2050 (compared with 1990 levels).
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 Sustainable Design
Energy
Lighting and equipment
Heating, cooling, and ventilation
Occupant processes
Water
Potable supply for occupants
Non-potable supply for processes
Storm water runoff
Materials
Site work
Structure, envelope, and finishes
Furnishings and equipment
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▪ Minimize operating energy
▪ Utilize renewable energy
▪ Select and design site
▪ Reduce water use
▪ Reclaim gray water
▪ Manage Hydraulics
and Hydrology (H&H)
▪ Implement low impact
development
▪ Seek renewable sources
▪ Minimize embodied measures
 Green buildings
•Buildings or homes that are more energy efficient, produce less
waste and are healthier to be inside
•Buildings around the globe consume about 48% of the total
electricity produced.
•Need of Green Buildings to decrease the demand.
•Typical Problems in Construction Industry Energy Consumption
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 Why BIM ,,Benefits of BIM,,

The color of BIM is green.

Sustainability can be defined as the ability to meet the needs
of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.
BIM
“Sustainability begins with really understanding how you will
use a building.

BIM lets you model the space and run analytics so you can
make sure the building will efficiently support the people who
use it.”

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 Why BIM ,,Benefits of BIM,,

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 Sustainable Design Simulations Run
on Information Models and
Databases
▪ XML and IFCs have emerged as sustainable
design information modeling standards.

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 Sustainability: Graphical
Models

Left: image by Iacchus, Sunray, WikiMedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Right: Image by Johann Dréo, WikiMedia Commons, Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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 Information Models Enable
Sustainable Design Simulations

Educational Campus Building

Energy Use Simulation
Educational Campus Building
Daylighting Simulation

Lake Ecology Simulation

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 What are the main sustainability
challenges that society faces today?
▪ Mitigating Global Warming and Associated Climate Change While Meeting the
Increasing Needs for Energy
Reversing the Loss of Biodiversity
▪ Maintaining and Improving Access to Fresh Water
▪ Maintaining and Improving Access to Healthy and Affordable Food through
Sustainable Agriculture
▪ Maintaining and Expanding Critical Infrastructure that Mitigates
Environmental Impacts on Human Health and Improves the Quality of Human
Life

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 BIM is a Catalyst for Efficient and Effective
Sustainable Design
▪ The most advanced design
technology available.
▪ Makes information available
OWNERS
for analysis earlier in design
process.
▪ Supports an improved
collaborative process. BUILDING
▪ Reduces the effort of BUILDERS INFORMATIO ARCHITECTS
increasingly complex building N
MODELING
design.
▪ Facilitates a holistic design
approach.
▪ Enables accurate simulations of
building design performance.
MEP SYSTEMS STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERS ENGINEERS

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 BIM Is a Catalyst for Collaborative Sustainable Design
OPERATIONS
RESEARCH &
MANAGEMENT EARTH
SCIENTISTS SCIENTISTS

PHYSIOLOGISTS FACILITY MANAGERS CIVIL

& MEDICAL ENGINEERS
SCIENCTISTS OWNERS

BUILDING
BUILDERS INFORMATION ARCHITECTS
MODELING

ACOUSTICAL &
LIGHTING
MANUFACTURERS
ENGINEERS

BUILDING & PSYCHOLOGISTS &

MATERIAL COGNITIVE
MEP SYSTEMS STRUCTURAL SCIENCTISTS
SCIENTISTS
ENGINEERS ENGINEERS
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 BIM as Collaborative Foundation

▪ Intelligent building model

▪ IFC (INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASS)- Seamless sharing and
exchange of 3D model’s information for generating building
simulations
▪ Strategic partnership and cooperation with analysis software
vendors
Structural
HVAC BIM
Electrical
• Structural Engineering
IFC

Piped BIM
Services/Fire • Collision Detection
Elevators
Estimating • Code Checking

Energy Analysis • Building Performance and energy simulations

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 What is a model?
A model is a representation of something else.
A model is useful if it is able to:
▪ Explain past observations.
▪ Predict future observations.
▪ Help control future events.
▪ Deliver value at a relatively low cost, especially in combination with
other models.
▪ Be easily proven to be false or inaccurate.
▪ Present simplicity, or even aesthetic appeal.
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 Who is the typical building simulation client?
rating systems
ARCHITECTURAL - Egyptian Green Building
- Designers - BREEAM
- Architects - LEED
- Master planners - DGNB
- Urban designers - Estidama
- Interior Designers - Gsas
- Other “green” rating systems
ENGINEERS
- HVAC
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- Building Physics

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 Why BIM ,,Benefits of BIM,,

BIM for what?

● Decision making • Building location
● Rating compliance • Building orientation
● Building Performance • Water use reduction
How? • Outdoor air delivery
● 3d visual information monitoring
● Numerical information • Increased ventilation
● Data linking transfer • Thermal comfort
● REM Rapid Energy
Modelling
● Analysis
● Cloud computing
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 Basic energy studies at conceptual design stage
include:
● Lighting analysis
● CFD analysis
● Fire analysis
● Sun and shadow
● Solar/shading analysis
● Wind / natural ventilation
● Energy code compliance
● Solar loads / radiation
● Thermal comfort
● Building envelope performance
● Heating and cooling load analysis
● Heating & Cooling loads
● LCA Life Cycle Assessment
● Daylight availability
● Renewable energy
● Whole building energy use & costs
● HVAC equipment sizing
● Water use & costs (indoor, outdoor, and catchment)
● Carbon emissions

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 A. Physical model,
B. Model transposition to the software,
C. Sunlight analysis on surfaces determine the amount of passive energy,
D. Sound/noise analysis,
E. Analysis of the year shadow range,
F. Wind analysis,
G. Shadow analysis taking into account the annual passive energy distribution,
H. Colorful of the shadow range.

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 Results from BIM software analysis.
A. Shading analysis of surface sun exposure
which attempts to re-design object structures;
B. Thermal analysis-passive gains;
C. Shadow range and sun exposure;
D. Internal solar access.

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 Energy Modeling
• Using BIM in the design process helps us evaluate energy
efficiency and make recommendations for design alternatives that
will enhance a building’s performance. By combining BIM with
specialized energy modeling software, every part of a building,
from MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) systems to interior
climate, can be simulated and optimized for energy efficiency.

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 Carbon
• Carbon footprinting with BIM helps us test conceptual designs so we can specify solutions with the lowest
carbon impact. This allows us to identify low carbon options that have the potential to drive down carbon
emissions during the design and construction phases, as well as options that lead to carbon savings during
a building’s operation.

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Carbon Footprint Varies - Regional
Electricity Fuel Mix

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 A Carbon Neutral Building – Simple
Example
Requires a Very Efficient Building

40% non-carbon
60% reduction
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in grid electricity {

Onsite
Renewable
Biofuel Diesel Grid Electricity
Generation
Generator or Boiler

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 Materials

• Tying BIM to materials can significantly reduce construction waste

and streamline the supply chain through more accurate
procurement. Like carbon footprinting, it also helps us select
design solutions that can reduce the overall environmental impact
of a building throughout its operation. While BIM has the potential
to reduce waste on all construction projects, it is highly beneficial
to large complex projects, which tend to generate significant waste
if they are not carefully managed.

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 Water

• BIM helps to quantify the amount of water used in a building by

calculating the number of fixtures (sinks, toilets, etc.) and their
related water usage. This also helps us measure the potential for
greywater reuse, which is highly beneficial for reducing demand on
local water supplies. The amount of water available for harvesting
can be calculated using BIM, based on the site, harvesting system,
and the size of building.

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What are the main sustainability
challenges that society faces today?
Maintaining and Expanding Access to Fresh Water

Aerial map of Miramar Water Treatment Plant Project with contract phase overlays, by L.
Robin, 2009, courtesy The City of San Diego, California
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Sustainable architecture is integrating two aims include Technology
and human’s aim

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 Artificial lighting
The simulations allow to calculate a series of climate-based daylight metrics such as:

• Daylight Autonomy (DA)

• Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI)

• Daylight Glare Probability (DGP)

• Daylight Factor (DF)

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 Daylighting Modeling -3D View

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 Daylighting simulation extract

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 Sun Studies In Revit

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 RME

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 REVIT PRACTICE

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 Heating and Cooling Load Calculation

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 Weather Data
Design Conditions
– ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals
• Weather Statistics & Observations
– National Climactic Data Center (U.S.)
– Mesowest (Southwest U.S.)
– Weather Bank (International)
• Annual Weather Data
– DOE‐2 Website (TMY, WYEC, etc)
– EnergyPlus Website (EPW, CSV)
• International Weather Data
– EnergyPlus Weather Source Data

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 Weather Data
A weather data layer for Google Earth on the US EERE weather file site shows EnergyPlus weather file locations. This allows
a designer to compare nearby weather files for the best site match, accounting for any change in elevation, proximity to
mountains or water bodies, as shown in Case Study 5.3. Google Earth images use data from SIO, NOAA, the U.S. Navy,
NGA, GEBCO, Cnes SpotImage, Terrametrics, and IBCAO

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 Thermal Zoning

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 Thermal Zoning

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 Criteria For Zoning An Energy Model Usage
• All rooms should have similar internal loads and usage schedules Temperature Control
• All rooms should have the same Tstat schedules Solar Gains
• Perimeter zones with windows: Min. one zone for each compass direction
• Unglazed exterior zones can be combined
• Consider shading!
Perimeter or Interior Location
• 12‐15’ perimeter zones often require winter heating
• Core spaces can require year round cooling Distribution System Type
•Combine rooms served by the same type of distribution system (i.e.
fan coil units)

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 Passive Design

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 Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

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 Methodology of the integration system

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SOFTWARE
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“Software doesn’t design sustainable buildings, people do.” – Elrond Burrell

Energy simulation programs
List of approved LEED software
approved by Canada Green Building
⬗ DOE2
⬗ eQUEST ⬗ Council (CaGBC):
⬗ Visual DOE ⬗ eQuest
⬗ EnergyPlus ⬗ EE4
⬗ EnergyPro ⬗ DOE-2
⬗ HAP (Carrier HAP) ⬗ EnergyPlus
⬗ TRACE 700 (Trane TRACE) ⬗ IES Virtual Environment,
⬗ BLAST (not mentioned within the LEED form, but ⬗ Hourly Analysis Program (HAP)
⬗ TRACE 700
listed in 90.1 section G2) ⬗ EnergyPro v5.1.
⬗ IES (Integrated environmental solutions, listed in
LEED Advanced energy modeling .

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 External to Revit
Software

● Insight 360 (new tool just announced by Autodesk at Greenbuild 2015)

● New cloud-based tool enabling a new way to experience building energy and environmental performance
and the collective actions that lead to better outcomes throughout all stages of the building lifecycle.

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Software

Insight 360

● Solar Analysis
Visualize and quantify the distribution of solar radiation on various surfaces.
● Light Analysis
Analysis for illuminance and validation for LEED v3 IEQc8.1 and LEED v4 IEQ Daylight Credit, Option 2.
● Heating and Cooling Loads
Tool used primarily by mechanical engineers to size HVAC equipment.
● Generate Insight
Automatically varies building design inputs resulting in high and low possible annual energy costs with
approximately +/- 10% accuracy. Inputs can then be adjusted, e.g., glazing properties, to see instant feedback on
performance impacts.

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External to Revit

● Green Building Studio (GBS)

● Standalone cloud-based whole building performance analysis using the DOE2 simulation engine.

● Web-based solution
● Early building energy design decisions
● Whole building energy analysis
● Design alternative comparisons

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Software

Within Revit
● Energy Analysis
Analyze a design’s expected energy use based on geometry and location on earth.

Energy Settings dialog (Analysis tab)

● Set Location
● Select Project Phase
● Specify Analysis Mode: Avoid Use Conceptual Masses setting)
● All other settings are optional

Energy Analysis tools on the Analysis tab in Revit

2016 R2, plus the Insight 360 add-in.

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 ENERGY CONSUMPTION – HVAC LOAD – THERMAL COMFORT

•FUNCTION •OCCUPANCY
•CONSTRUCTION •LIGHTING
•SCHEDULE •HVAC SETPIONT
•DEMOSTIC WATER •MECHANICAL
VENTILATION •NATURAL
VENTILATION •INFILTRATION
•(ACH)

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 Autodesk's lighting plug-in for Revit.

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Masses must have ‘mass floors’ specified to create a valid EAM.
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Masses and Building Elements used together in energy analysis.

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Thermal properties associated with building

elements can be used in the energy simulation.

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 EcoScorecard plug-in

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Ecodesigner “Energy Analysis with ArchiCAD”

ecodesigner
▪ Ease-of-use and smooth workflow
▪ Integrated solutions
▪ Evaluate alternatives early and throughout the design
process

Through energy
From initial design To a developed
analysis applications
energy-efficient project

Energy simulation solutions

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 Detailed Energy Performance Evaluation Report

EcoDesigner STAR displays fully customizable, detailed reports about various,

energy-related characteristics of the individual thermal blocks,

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 Detailed Energy Performance Monitor the entire project's energy performance.

Control and optimize the behavior of spaces independently.

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Suitability Maps for InfraWorks 360

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Suitability Maps for InfraWorks 360

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Suitability Maps for InfraWorks 360

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Software

Applications: Autodesk Vasari

▪ conceptual building design
(parametric massing) and
provides energy/carbon
analysis,solar radiation
analysis, and more, you can
create, analyze, and refine
whole building models.

▪ Conceptual building models

created with Vasari can also be
used in Autodesk Revit to
develop more detailed building
models.

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Software

Applications: ECOTECT
▪ Fully integrated building & HVAC
program for architects, engineers, and
researchers
▪ Stand-alone engine without a graphical
interface
▪ Reads input and writes output as text
files
▪ Simulates
building heating,
cooling,
lighting,
ventilating,
and other energy flows
▪ Results
Load Calculations
Energy Analysis
Indirect environmental effects

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Software

directly transferring BIM model to Ecotect via plug-in based on gbXML file format.

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Software

sample thermal energy analysis in Ecotect.

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Software

Applications: ArchiPHYSIK
▪ A complete solution for
thermal analysis including
U-value, vapor diffusion and
temperature amplitudes.
▪ Identifies failures compared
to pre-defined values.
▪ Building performance
▪ Building component
performance

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Software
Grasshopper

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 ladybug

Ladybug allows you to import and

analyze standard weather data in
Grasshopper; draw diagrams like
Sun-path, wind-rose,
radiation-rose, etc; customize the
diagrams in several ways; run
radiation analysis, shadow
studies, and view analysis.

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 Butterfly
Software

Butterfly is a
Grasshopper/Dynamo
plugin and
object-oriented python
library that creates
and runs
computational fluid
dynamics (CFD)
simulations using
OpenFOAM.

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Software

Honeybee
Honeybee connects
Grasshopper3D to
validated simulation
engines such as
EnergyPlus, Radiance,
Daysim and OpenStudio for
building energy, comfort,
daylighting and lighting
simulation.

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DIVA-for-Rhino

● Point in Time Visualization

● Daylight Factor
● Illuminance Distribution
● LEED Compliance
● Radiation Maps
● Spatial Daylight Autonomy
● Annual Solar Exposure

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Software

eQuest
Imagine a building energy simulation tool comprehensive enough to be useful
to ALL design team members, yet so intuitive ANY design team member could use it,
in ANY or ALL design phases, including schematic design. eQUEST is well named
because it provides something the you’ve been looking for, but have been unable to
find … a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use building energy analysis tool. With eQUEST,
you’ll be able to provide professional-level results in an affordable level of effort.

-Daylight

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Software

ENVI-met simulation

urban spaces master plans, physical planning

morphology and help to draw a picture about
the role of built environment elements,
materials and vegetation on pedestrian
perception and thermal comfort

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 Analytical Model Derived from gbXML
GREEN BUILDING XML

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 Data Sharing via IFC
IFC platform provides a
bi-directional data link to major
energy analysis software

BIM model Energy analysis

applications

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 gbXML Support
• CAD/BIM
• Autodesk
• HVAC/Energy • AutoCAD Architecture & MEP
• CADLine • Revit Architecture & MEP
• Cymap • Green Building Studio (GBS)
• Carrier • Ecotect
• Hourly Analysis Program (HAP)
• DOE-2.2 & eQuest (via GBS) • Bentley
• Elite Software • Architecture
• EnergyPlus (via GBS) • Building Mechanical Systems
• Energy Soft* • Speedikon Architectural
• Environmental Design Solutions Ltd. • Google
• Tas • SketchUp
• IES, Ltd.
• IES <Virtual Environment> • Graphisoft
• Trane • ArchiCAD
• TRACE 700 • Mac and Windows

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Case Study

MASDAR
• Funded by Mubadala Development Company
• Designed by Foster + Partners
• Powered entirely on solar energy and other renewable
energy sources
• Zero-carbon, zero-waste ecology
• Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC)
• Projected to cost US$22 billion
• Started in 2006,
• First phase 2009
• 2.3 sq mi
• 50,000 people
• 1,500 businesses

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Case Study

MASDAR
• Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
(MIST)
• Automobiles will be banned within the city
• Public mass transit and personal rapid
transit systems
• City will be walled, to keep out the hot desert
wind
• Narrow, shaded streets that will also funnel
breezes
• Partners include through the Clean Tech
Fund, GE, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Mitsubishi,
Rolls-Royce, Total S.A., Mitsui and Fiat

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Case Study

MASDAR
• Power Sources
• 40 to 60 megawatt solar power plant, built by the German firm Conergy
(construction activity)
• Larger facility and additional photovoltaic modules will be placed on rooftops to
provide supplemental solar energy totaling 130 megawatts
• Wind farms will be established outside the city's perimeter capable of producing
up to 20 megawatts
• Geothermal power
• Hydrogen power plant
• The city will not produce enough energy to power itself at night
• Import gas-fired power from Abu Dhabi’s grid
• Carbon accounting by exporting excess solar power to the grid during the day

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Case Study

• Water
MASDAR
– Solar-powered desalination plant
– 60 percent lower water needs than
similarly sized communities
– 80 percent of the water used will
be recycled
– Attempt to reduce waste to zero
– Biological waste will be used to
create nutrient-rich soil and
fertilizer
– Waste incineration as an
additional power source
– Recycle

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Case Study
MASDAR SYSTEMS
• Building operation
• Electrical generation and distribution
• Electrical energy meters
• Water meters
• Mechanical systems
• Public health systems
• Lighting control system
• Automated shading system
• Automated atrium roof lights
• Vertical transportation
• Public address system
• Digital signage system
• Sun tracking system
• Irrigation system
• Water features
• Information portal system
• Freight tracking RFID system
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⬗Personnel RFID system
⬗MASDAR RFID tracking system
⬗Ventilation system for catering facilities
⬗Kitchen equipment
⬗Point of sale system
⬗Waste system
⬗Audio visual systems
⬗Library data base and alarm system
⬗Automated book storage facility
⬗Transportation
⬗PRT - Management centre
⬗PRT - Security system
⬗PRT - Ticketing system
⬗Vehicle management system
⬗LRT - Light Rail Transit System
Case Study

MASDAR SYSTEMS
•Life Safety and Security
•Seismic monitoring
•Structural anti-corrosion monitoring
•Fire detection/alarm system
•Fire Suppression systems
•Intruder detection system
•Closed circuit television system
•Access control system
•Emergency lighting system
•Oxygen depletion monitoring system
•Refrigerant leak detection system
•Water leak detection system
•Disabled refuge telephone system
•Fire fighters telephone system
•Smoke extract system
•Fire pump
•Sump pumps

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MASDAR SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

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 Thanks!
Any questions?
You can find me at:
⬗ @bimarabia
⬗ oselim@bimarabia.com

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